Reggie Snow is the author of the popular YA Paddy Dimple series. Her childhood, best friend, Dr. Patrick "Trick" McCullough is a former playboy, current OBGYN. They've each got some image problems. She's unexpectedly pregnant, not a great thing for a woman who's primary audience consists of impressionable teens. And he's on the nurses' naughty list; always a problem for a randy man who's seen most of the single women in his small town naked without sleeping with any of them. Besides, Trick's starting to realize it might be time to settle down if he wants to increase his patient list to include the pregnant mamas waddling around town.

That can be fixed…

They decide to work together by playing married until Reggie's baby's born. She hopes that her pregnancy won't bag her latest book's sales or encourage young adults to have unwed pregnancies. He hopes a family-man image will destroy his bad-boy bachelor reputation so he can deliver babies and heal more women in his small town of Hadley Falls, Vermont.

As long as they don’t fall in love…or into bed. Easy to say, until she starts kissing Trick.

Dog-Gone But Not Forgotten

Journalist Carrie Moore left Rhode Island eighteen years ago, never to return. When she inherits her Nana’s possessions, her plan is simple. Sell them off and get back to Texas before she bumps into anyone she knows. Especially Jack, the boy who took her virginity the night of the senior prom and then took her best friend home, instead. But Nana had a possession that no one knew about: an Irish Wolfhound as large as pony that runs like one, too. When the beast runs into Jack—repeatedly—she starts to wonder. Especially when she hears Nana’s voice in the dog’s yowls. Is Ellie channeling Nana? And is Nana trying to right the wrong with the man who broke her girlish heart?

When Animal Control Coordinator, Captain Jack Radigan learns that the giant dog terrorizing his jurisdiction belongs to the lost love of his life, he’s ready to live the “to protect and to serve” slogan painted on the door of his pick-up. First, he’ll put his animal control techniques to work, and teach her how to tame her dog. And then, he’ll teach her that this cop isn’t a bad dog, serving up the love he’s been keeping hot since high school.

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